Survival MMOs

Hunger, thirst, exposure, and everything else trying to kill you before another player does — survival MMOs strip away hand-holding and drop players into hostile worlds where gathering resources, building shelter, and staying alive come before any quest log. Crafting, base-building, and full-loot PvP often go hand in hand with the genre, since survival mechanics rarely exist in isolation. This tag covers survival MMOs where the environment is as much an enemy as other players, from ARK and Rust-style sandboxes to MMO-scale survival worlds pushing the formula further.